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P. NICK CURRAN
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May 1, 2012
Occupy Boston participates in Occupy Wall Street's nation-wide May Day rally on May 1, 2012.
Sum of their Parts
Boston is a city built on pride. Our music, our sports, our accents: whatever it is, good or bad, it is ours .
The Walkmen (2011)
The Walkmen released their debut record Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone 10 years ago this month — they're celebrating with the release of a limited run of high-fidelity vinyl.
Noise in the attic
Inside a foam-padded attic at the top of a two-family home down a narrow tree-lined street just outside of Northampton is the birthplace of a band.
No parents, no rules
Like most good things in life, my first Big Digits experience was in an Allston basement.
Too drunk to truck
"We toured in a Vietnam-era, two-and-a-half ton military truck," says Ryan Major, singer/guitarist of Allston '60s garage-rock revivalists the Fagettes.
Brighton Music Hall | July 11, 2011
Kurt Vile performs live at the Brighton Music Hall on July 11, 2011.
Beach Fossils
Beach Fossils
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk
Baby Birds Don't Drink Milk
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets
Boston flavors the Dirty Apple
On the first morning of Hillstock — a three-day Brooklyn-based DIY music fest split among a backyard, a warehouse, and a block party — I awoke wearing face paint and covered in confetti and bruises.
Stick 'n' poke
Slideshow: Doomstar gives out amateur tattoos
Ampersand rock
It's gotta be sweet to see the front-row girl with faded dyed-pink hair and X's on her hand turn to her friend with a definite "fuck yeah!" expression and shout, "This band is awesome!"
Sea of sound
On October 22 in the Back Bay, Caspian led a post-rock church service.
Nocturnal cravings
My fascination with dream pop — a genre characterized by washy guitars and airy, indistinct vocals — lies in its effects when done right: a sense of vague translocation and a fleeting feeling of transcendence.
Bodies of Water Arts & Crafts/Motorcycle Face (2010)
The Needy Visions are all about fun, and goddamn do I wish I had their latest homonymous release at the beginning of summer.
The raw post-grunge pop of Earthquake Party!
Earthquake Party! are one of the few bands whose sound lives up their name: shattering, blown-out, blissed-out, all-enveloping. On a Tuesday morning in their Allston practice space — a Tuesday morning! — the trio play with unrestrained mania.
Drug Rug and Tune-Yards, live in the MFA Courtyard, July 28, 2010
Drug Rug and Tune-Yards, live in the MFA Courtyard, July 28, 2010
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